On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 11:59:03 -0400, Ken Porowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If history serves as any lesson, most attempts at any type of >installation dialog usually fails (CA-AGGRAVATOR anyone?) as well as >most other OEM installers. Give me an install lib and a list of jobs to >run and I'll be just fine thank you. The exception at this point >appears to be the ServerPac dialogs which actually appear to work nicely >and properly the way they are. <rant> Since SMP/E is required to do any z/OS installation and maintenance, and ServerPac Dialog is all but required, and CBPDO is relatively integrated into SMP/E... Is there any hope of IBM integrating the ServerPac application into SMP/E? Is there any hope that ISV's will eventually figure out how to write their installation processes around ServerPac and not try to re-invent the wheel, failing miserably at that? Since Candle is now IBM, those products are now ServerPac-capable, and I'm hoping there is little to no need of CICAT down the road. But I don't think it takes an outright acquisition to converge tools - aren't many of these ISV's an IBM Development Partner? </rant> Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company IT Infrastructure zSeries Platform Planning, Build & Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
